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After 6 days of continuous rain, the weather smiled on us on Saturday 14th January for the second anniversary reunion of the birdwatching class of 2004. As a result, the birds in and around Malcolm Park were busy drying out or restocking on food, giving us ample opportunity to supervise them. Around base camp (Jane's house) there was a raucous dawn chorus and early sightings of a white-bellied sea eagle and a white-throated kingfisher. After we started moving, three straw-headed bulbuls very kindly perched close by, preening themselves and giving us intermittent blasts of song. Also right outside Jane's house were close and clear views of striped tit-babbler, common iora and Asian brown flycatcher.
Across the long (and wet) grass between Malcolm Road and Goldhill we stopped to feed the mosquitoes and watch a juvenile brahminy kite swoop to a treetop to pick up a green breakfast (frog?) which it proceeded to eat while circling. It all seemed so easy it could probably have taken in a coffee and read the newspaper at the same time. Around Goldhill a black baza posed nicely for us before we headed back to Jane's where a sumptuous breakfast was waiting for us. Many thanks, Jane.
Full list of birds seen and heard:
- White-Throated Kingfisher
- White-Bellied Fish Eagle
- Greater Racket-Tailed Drongo
- Yellow-Vented Bulbul
- White-Breasted Waterhen (H)
- Dollarbird
- Pink-Necked Green-Pigeon
- Asian Koel (F)
- Straw-Headed Bulbul
- Striped Tit-Babbler
- Common Iora
- Black-Naped Oriole
- Javan Myna
- Asian Brown Flycatcher
- Olive-Backed Sunbird
- Hill Myna
- Arctic Warbler
- Red Lory
- Long-Tailed Parakeet
- Asian Glossy Starling
- Dark-Necked Tailorbird (H)
- Banded Woodpecker (H)
- Yellow-Crested Cockatoo
- Rose-Ringed Parakeet
- Blue-Tailed Bee-Eater
- House Crow
- Brahminy Kite
- Pacific Swallow
- Crimson Sunbird
- Scarlet-Backed Flowerpecker
- Rainbow Lorikeet
- Black Baza
- Greater Coucal (H)
- Spotted Dove
- Common Tailorbird
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